Yagouba Surname
Approximately 205 people bear this surname
Yagouba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 187 | 1:111,065 | 12,922 |
| Ivory Coast | 9 | 1:2,563,470 | 41,100 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Yagouba (2,819) may also be a first name.
Yagouba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yagouba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yagouba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ) is found most in Cameroon. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Yagouba? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 1,163,787th most commonly held family name on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 35,549,004 people. The surname is primarily found in Africa, where 100 percent of Yagouba reside; 73 percent reside in West Africa and 62 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 137,278th most frequent first name on earth, borne by 2,819 people.
This surname is most commonly occurring in Cameroon, where it is carried by 187 people, or 1 in 111,065. In Cameroon Yagouba is most prevalent in: Adamawa Region, where 86 percent live, West Region, where 7 percent live and Far North Region, where 3 percent live. Outside of Cameroon Yagouba is found in 4 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent live and Niger, where 3 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yagouba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yagouba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ | yqwb | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Yagouba
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